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Excerpt from I. Beówulf, an Anglo-Saxon Poem, And, II. The Fight at Finnsburh, a Fragment: With Text and Glossary on the Basis of M. Heyne <p>So many important contributions to the Beowulf literature were, however, made between 1873 and 1879 that Heyne found it necessary to put forth a new edition In this new, lastedi tion, the text was subjected to a careful revision, and was fortified by the views, contributions, and criticisms of other zealous scholars. In it the collation of the unique Beowulf Ms. (vitellius A. 15 Cottonian Mss. Of the British Museum), as made by E. Kolbing in Herrig's Archiv (bd. 56; was followed wherever-the present condition of the Ms. Had to be discussed; and the researches of Bugge, Rieger, and others, on single passages, were made use of. The discussion of the metrical structure of the poem, as occurring in the second and third editions, was omitted in the fourth, owing to the many controversies in which the subject is still involved. The present editor has thought it best to do the same, though, happily, the subject of Old English Metrilc is undergoing a steady illumination through the labors of Schipper and others. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.